[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法華玄贊義決](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724) › 1.12 # 法華玄贊義決 1.12 法華玄贊義決 1.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.12) 三為顯三，有七：一顯三寶故，下文云：又見彼土現在諸佛，及聞諸佛所說經法，并見彼諸比丘等。又第二云：若有能信汝所說，即見於我及比丘僧并諸菩薩等。論云：佛及弟子差別示現三寶故，令起信樂故。第二顯三乘差別，謂比丘等四眾及見菩薩種種因緣而求佛道等故。論云：復乘差別令知勝劣。第三顯世尊三輪化故，入定者顯記心輪，放光等題神境輪，說法者顯教誡輪，令知勝人起尊重故。第四顯悟知三性，下文云：諸佛兩足尊知法常無性，佛種從緣起，是故說一乘，是法住等，令悟三性達所知故。第五顯三勝行，下文云：入如來室、著如來衣、坐如來座等，為顯勝行令修學故。第六顯三種平等，一授聲聞當得作佛記，二多寶佛涅槃涅槃起，三現一佛攝一切佛。故論云，為除三種染無煩惱三昧見等，染慢說三平等。三種染慢者，一信種種乘異，二信世間涅槃異，三信彼此身異，令證真理攝自他故。第七顯佛三菩提，下經皆謂如來出釋氏宮顯化身，我實成佛已來久遠顯報身，如來如實知見三界等顯法身，故論云，八者示現成大菩提無上者示現三種佛菩提等，令識真化而求證故。 > Third, there are seven items demonstrating 'three': (1) to demonstrate the Three Jewels, as the text below says: 'Moreover, he saw the present Buddhas of that land, heard the Dharma of the sūtras taught by those Buddhas, and saw those monks,' and so forth, and Chapter Two says: 'If there are those who can believe what you teach, they will see me, the saṅgha of monks, and all the bodhisattvas,' and so forth, and the treatise says: 'Because the Buddhas and their disciples distinctly manifest the Three Jewels,' to arouse faith and joy; (2) to demonstrate the distinctions among the three vehicles, meaning the fourfold assembly of monks and so forth and seeing bodhisattvas seeking the Buddha way through various conditions, where the treatise says: 'Moreover, the distinction of vehicles makes known the superior and the inferior'; (3) to demonstrate the World-Honoured One's transformation through the three wheels, where entering samādhi demonstrates the wheel of reading thoughts, emitting light and the like manifests the wheel of supernatural transformation, and teaching the Dharma demonstrates the wheel of instruction, in order to make \[beings\] know the superior person and give rise to reverence; (4) to demonstrate awakening to and knowing the three natures, as the text below says: 'The Buddhas, the two-footed honoured ones, know that dharmas are perpetually devoid of nature; the Buddha-seed arises from conditions, therefore they teach the ekayāna; this Dharma abides...', in order to make \[beings\] awaken to the three natures and fathom the objects of knowledge; (5) to demonstrate the three superior practices, as the text below says: 'entering the Tathāgata's room, wearing the Tathāgata's robe, and sitting on the Tathāgata's seat,' and so forth, to demonstrate superior practices so as to inspire cultivation and study; (6) to demonstrate the three kinds of equality: first, conferring the prediction that the śrāvakas will definitely attain Buddhahood; second, Prabhūtaratna Buddha's arising from nirvāṇa; third, manifesting that one Buddha gathers all Buddhas; hence the treatise says that in order to eliminate three kinds of defiled views of the uncontaminated samādhi and the like, the three equalities were taught on account of defiled conceit—the three kinds of defiled conceit being believing that the various vehicles differ, believing that the mundane world and nirvāṇa differ, and believing that one's own body and another's differ—so that \[beings\] may realize the true principle and encompass oneself and others; (7) to demonstrate the three bodhis of the Buddha, where the sūtra below states that all think the Tathāgata went forth from the Śākya palace to demonstrate the transformation body, that in truth since he attained Buddhahood it has been a vast time to demonstrate the reward body, and that the Tathāgata truly knows and sees the triple world and so forth to demonstrate the Dharma body; hence the treatise says that the eighth is manifesting the attainment of the unsurpassed great bodhi, which is manifesting the three kinds of Buddha-bodhi, so that \[beings\] may recognize the real and the transformation and seek realization. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.11) - [Next: 1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.13) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724~en-mt.1.12) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [妙法蓮華經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva.1.16) — Classical Chinese - [添品妙法蓮華經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-jnanagupta.1.15) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1724.1.12) · Pramāṇa